Garment-hook.



P. MARQUAND.

GARMENT HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.12, 1910.

1,080,987, Patented Dec. 9, 19.13.

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PHILIP IVIARQUAND, OF NEW YORKy N. Y., .ASSIGNOR,

BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, 'IO

TRI-EYE HOOK & EYE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF YORK.

GARMENT-Hook.

Application filed January 12, 1910.

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP MARQUAND, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have inventedcert-ain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hooks, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to garment hooks of the type used in connectionwith an eye to form a fastening means for womens dresses, and the cbject of the invention is to provide a hook of this description which maybe easily and securely attached to the garment in the desired positionand which will be cheap to manufacture.

Hooks of this character are usually formed from a single piece of wirebent into the desired shape, and consist of a pair of attaching eyes atthe rear end and a bill projecting rearwardly from the front end. Toattach to the garment, the front end is brought up nearly flush with theedge of the garment, and the eyes at the rear are sewed down in place.This is objectionable because the edge of the garment being free maycurl up or be pulled out of place so as to expose the hook to view. Toremedy this defect it has been suggested that the hook be provided witha front attaching eye in addition to the two rear eyes, so that I do notclaim broadly the provision of means for attaching the forward as wellas the rear end of the hook, but I believe that my hook is a substantialimprovement over the other forms which have been suggested and patentedbecause they are lacking in certain important characteristics.

I have found from practical experience that the means for attaching theforward end of the hook must have the following points: It must be inthe same plane as the rear eyes and as far forward as possible withoutprojecting beyond the bend, being preferably between the side wires. Itmust fasten down the side wires rather than the tongue which has thehump. In Patent No. 774,426, of November 8, 1904, a forward eye is shownhaving certain of these characteristics, but it is subject totheobjection that Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

serial No. 537,584.

the side bars are free to move away from the cloth even when the tongueis fastened down. I have found that I can overcome this objection bycontinuing the wire from the eye on over across the top of one of theside bars so as to act as a stop against upward movement of the sidebar.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view; Fig. Q is anunderside view; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view.

The hook is preferably bent up from a single piece of wire which isfirst coiled t0 form a rear attaching eye l, thence forward as the sidebar 2. Then the wire is bent up and back to form one side of the bill 3,and returning in a similar manner, the side bar 4 and rear eye 5 areformed. After the eye 6 has been formed the wire is continued downbetween the side bars 2 and 4 as the tongue 6 preferably provided with ahump 7 which serves to prevent displacement of the eyelet. The end ofthe tongue G is bent or coiled to form the. eye 9. and then the end 10is brought over across the top of the side bar. Any upward pull on thebill will be resisted by this projecting end 10, and the hook istherefore securely fastened to the garment. Theside bars are kept asuiiicient distance apart to permit the forward eye as well as thetongue to be between them, and the forward eye is preferably locatedjust at the point where the side bars bend up to form the bill.

Means for attaching the forward end of the hook to the garment otherthan a circular eye will readily occur to one skilled in this art, and Itherefore do not limit myself to the specific form herein shown.

Having described my invention what I claim is:

A garment hook comprising two side bars provided with rear sewingeyelets, and eX- tended to form an upturned bill, an intermediate barextending from one of the said eyelets and provided with a hump, a coilbetween the side bars at their front ends and having its lower endconnected to the intermediate bar and a stop bar connected at one end tothe upper end of the coil to cross the intermediate bar and to hold itdown at a In witness whereof I have hereunto set point between thethread engaging front my hand in the presence of two Witnesses. portionof the coil and' the hump and eX- tended to cross a side bar at thefront end PHILIP MARQUAND thereof, a portion of the stop bar between theVVitnesseS:

coil and side bzu constituting it sewing bar to GERTRUDE WV. MARTLING,

hold down the bill end of the hook. OLIVE B. KING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, '1). C.

